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Neil ea01cd0ccd fix(windows): reject a node-pty addon that predates the MSYS breakaway denial (#20047)
* docs(windows): record the measured MSYS job-breakaway mechanism

The per-PTY job already denies JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_BREAKAWAY_OK for Cygwin/MSYS
shells (#19068), but nothing records why, and a conpty.node built before that
commit fails windows-msys-job.win32.test.ts in a way that reads as a source
defect. Measured on a real Windows 11 host: both the plain and the exec-
replacement Git Bash shapes leak, the escape is the MSYS runtime's own
spawn/exec (fork keeps membership), and a single-variable A/B on
usesCygwinRuntime flips the result 0/2 -> 4/4.

Also names the gap the failure hid behind: node-pty-job-ownership.cjs asserts
symbol presence, which cannot distinguish patch revisions.

* fix(windows): reject a node-pty addon that predates the MSYS breakaway denial

The native-runtime gate asserted only that terminateJob, listJobProcessIds and
assignCurrentProcessToJob were exported. All three predate the Cygwin/MSYS
breakaway denial, so an addon built before it passes every gate,
isPtyJobOwnershipAvailable() returns true, and windows-pty-job.win32.test.ts
passes 6/6 -- while every Git Bash child is created outside its pane's job and
survives terminatePtyJob.

Read the resolved .node and require the wide msys-2.0.dll literal that
usesCygwinRuntime holds, the way stagedRelayAddonIsUnpatched() already tells a
patched windows-process-tree addon from a published one. An addon the caller
cannot name is refused rather than skipped: a gate that cannot see its subject
is not a gate.

Verified against real binaries on a Windows 11 host: the shared checkout's
pre-#19068 build errors, a build from current patched source passes, a missing
path errors.

Also closes the cross-host packaging skip. The export half has to load the
addon so it cannot run when the packaging host is not the target, which is how
a Windows release built elsewhere could ship this. The marker is a file read
and needs neither; an unrecognised layout warns rather than fails a release
that was packaging fine.

* fix(windows): check the MSYS breakaway denial on the rebuild path too

The Electron probe carried the marker check, but it lives inside
probeElectronNativeModules, which returns early whenever the Electron package
binary is unusable. Covered by another path is not this path checks -- and the
defect this whole change closes was a gate that looked like it checked.

Reading the binary needs neither a loadable Electron nor an executable target
arch, so assert it after the rebuild, beside the windows-process-tree
assertion that exists for the same reason: this is the addon copied into the
packaged app. Absent warns (a cross-platform rebuild need not leave a win32
addon on this disk); present and unmarked is fatal.

The fixtures now write a real addon file, because the gate reads the binary it
was told about rather than trusting the exports. Verified against the two real
binaries measured on the Windows host: the pre-#19068 build fails this path,
the build from current patched source passes.

* fix(windows): check the marker on every ConPTY path the packaged app can load

The packaged marker check read one hard-coded path, `build/Release/conpty.node`,
and warned when it was absent. `loadNativeModule` tries `build/Release`, then
`build/Debug`, then `prebuilds/win32-<arch>`, swallowing each failure, and
`prunePackagedNodePty` drops the published prebuild only when a same-arch
`build/Release` exists to replace it. So the two packages the check was added for
were the two it could not see:

- cross-host: no host but Windows can build conpty.node, so there is no
  `build/Release` and the prebuild is what ships. The check warned and returned.
- cross-arch: `build/Release` is the packaging host's own arch, patched and
  marked, so the check printed OK -- while the target app cannot load it and
  falls through to the unmarked prebuild underneath.

Measured, not assumed: both published Windows prebuilds in the node-pty tarball
contain neither `msys-2.0.dll` nor `cygwin1.dll` in any encoding. They are the
binary that leaks every MSYS pane child out of its job.

It now sweeps every candidate present for the *target* arch and refuses a package
with no candidate at all, which is a package with no ConPTY backend rather than a
layout to shrug at. It runs for every Windows slice instead of only the branch
the export check skips, so deleting the export check cannot silently take it too.
A stale source build keeps the rebuild advice; the prebuild gets the advice that
actually works, which is to package the slice on a Windows host of that arch.

Also: the marker constant was re-typed in four places and was tied to the C++
literal that produces it by nothing at all, so editing the patch would have left
a gate that fails every correctly rebuilt addon and tells the developer to do the
one thing that cannot help. The fixtures now take the constant from the gate, and
a test asserts the patch still adds `L"msys-2.0.dll"` to conpty.cc.

And the rebuild path treated a missing addon as a warning even on the host that
will run the install, where node-pty would fall through to that same prebuild.
The verdict is now a value, so it is tested without a platform gate.

* fix(windows): resolve the packaged ConPTY the way its loader does

Sweeping every candidate and demanding the marker on all of them was wrong in
the one case it was meant to make safe. `beforeBuild` runs
`rebuild-native-deps.mjs --platform=win32 --arch=<target>`, so a cross-arch slice
normally does get a patched `build/Release` for the target; `prunePackagedNodePty`
keeps the prebuild anyway because its guard is `electronArch === process.arch`
rather than the arch of the binary. That package is correct and its leftover
prebuild is never reached, and the sweep failed it -- telling whoever ran it to
package on a Windows arm64 host, which is both the wrong remedy and one no runner
here can offer.

Presence cannot separate that package from the one whose cross-arch rebuild
quietly emitted the host's architecture, because the only difference is the arch
of `build/Release`. So the gate now resolves the addon the way `loadNativeModule`
does -- first candidate whose PE `IMAGE_FILE_HEADER.Machine` matches the target,
walking root-then-lib for each layout in node-pty's own order -- and checks the
marker on the one that will actually run. A package with no candidate, or none of
the target's architecture, is refused: it has no ConPTY backend either way, and
the second is exactly what a silently host-arch cross-build looks like.

The PE machine reader already existed, privately, in the relay addon builder that
needed the same "a cross-build cannot silently emit host arch" guarantee. It is
now shared rather than copied.

Two seams were unreachable from anything but Windows, so nothing tested them:

- the afterPack hook's win32 block was an inline if/else that only a source-text
  assertion could inspect, and that assertion could not tell the difference
  between the check running and the check being wrapped in `try {} catch {}`. It
  is now `verifyPackagedWindowsNodePty`, and "the marker check runs even where
  the export check cannot" is four spied assertions instead of a string match.
- the rebuild path's verdict read `process` directly, so the branch that fires
  only on the host being rebuilt for was dead on every other host. It now takes
  the host as arguments, and the fs checks, the warning and the failure are all
  exercised from macOS.

Fixtures write a real PE header rather than `MZ fake addon`, since the gate now
reads one. The machine table is pinned to the documented IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE
values, because every fixture builds its header from that table and a table wrong
in both entries would otherwise agree with itself.

* fix(windows): say why the packaged ConPTY fell back, not just that it did

The previous commit resolved the addon by architecture but still had one message
for every way the resolution could land on the published prebuild. Those ways
want opposite remedies, and the one it printed was the remedy the commit before
it had just called wrong:

- no source build in the package at all — the slice has to be built somewhere
  that can build node-pty for the target arch.
- a source build that is there but is the packaging host's architecture, because
  the cross-arch rebuild did not honour `--arch` — re-running that rebuild is the
  fix, and "package on a Windows arm64 host" is neither necessary nor possible.

The second is the common one, since node-pty publishes a prebuild for both
Windows arches and prune keeps the target's on every cross-arch package. So the
old text fired mostly on the case it described least. It now reports which source
builds were skipped and the machine field each carried, and names the rebuild
command.

"Nothing the target can load" had the same problem in reverse: a zero-length or
truncated `conpty.node` got a cross-architecture diagnosis. Every candidate is
now named with what was actually read, including "not a PE image".

The rebuild path asserts the architecture too. A rebuild that ignored `--arch`
was otherwise only visible at packaging, two steps from the command that fixes
it. Arches with no known machine value are left unjudged rather than guessed at.

Two things the extraction broke or nearly broke, both found by mutation:

- the shared PE reader answers `null` where the relay builder's private copy
  returned a number, which would have turned its "node-gyp ignored --arch" error
  into a `TypeError`. Both callers now go through `describePeMachine`.
- the rebuild fixtures stage a script's co-located modules by walking its
  imports, and the walker only understood `from '...'` — so the gate's new
  `require('./windows-pe-machine.cjs')` was left behind and every subprocess test
  failed with a resolution error, which is the exact failure its own comment
  warns about. It now follows `require` and bare side-effect `import` as well,
  and has tests; the fixture stages the gate by walking it rather than by naming
  one file.

Fixtures write real PE headers through one shared builder instead of three
hand-rolled ones.

* fix(windows): run the node-pty addon gates on the Windows job that can

`rebuild-native-deps-node-pty.test.mjs` carries four `skipIf(platform !== 'win32')`
tests. The full suite runs on ubuntu, and the Windows PR job runs an explicit
file list that never named this file -- so those tests were skipped on Linux and
never reached anywhere else. Three of them predate this branch. The Windows job
is added the four node-pty addon suites plus the module-walker one; the comment
above that list already says why it is the right place, which is that the addon
assertions only hold once natives have been rebuilt. Running the path-joining
suites there also covers the separator this gate's candidate list is built from.

The rest is round-three review:

- the rebuild-time arch assertion told a reader "node-gyp did not honour --arch"
  about a file that was not a PE image at all, which is a truncated or
  quarantined artifact and a different command to run. The two now read
  differently, and neither claims the other's cause. Same fix the packaged gate
  had one commit ago, in the place that had not had it yet.
- the missing-addon error said node-pty "would load" a prebuild without checking
  it is there. It says "fall through to" now, which is true either way.
- `isLoadableByArch` had no caller left once the packaged gate started needing
  the raw machine field for its message. Removed rather than kept warm.
- each candidate's header is read once instead of up to three times.
- the module walker's comment claimed every shape that reaches a co-located
  module; it does not follow `projectRequire`/`requireLocal`, and it must not --
  those specifiers resolve against the project root, so following one stages the
  wrong path and the copy fails. Proven by trying: widening the pattern to
  require-shaped names broke nine tests on
  `projectRequire('./config/scripts/...')`. The comment now says what it follows
  and why it stops there.
- a new test resolved a file URL with `.pathname`, which keeps the drive-letter
  slash on Windows -- the very job this commit adds it to.

* docs(windows): put the superseded export-only gate in the past tense

It describes what used to pass a broken addon, so present tense reads as a
description of the gate the same document then explains replacing it.

* fix(windows): repair what running the node-pty suites on Windows exposed

Putting these files on the Windows job turned four assertions red on the first
run. Three of them were in tests that carried `skipIf(platform !== 'win32')` and
had therefore never executed anywhere, on any branch.

- `writeFakeElectronRebuild` emitted the `windows-process-tree` addon a real
  rebuild leaves but never node-pty's, so every Windows test of the rebuild path
  ran against a tree no real rebuild can produce: node-pty "rebuilt" with nothing
  in `build/Release`. The new same-host check reads that state correctly and said
  so. The fake rebuild now writes `build/Release/conpty.node` when it was asked
  to rebuild node-pty for win32, with the marker and the target machine.
- `mkTempProject` never staged `windows-process-tree-creation-time.cjs`. The
  rebuild script reaches it through `projectRequire`, which resolves against the
  project root, so the module walker cannot follow it and must not try. Staged by
  name, with a comment saying which of the two it is. Without it the
  windows-process-tree probe failed to load its own checker and the module joined
  `modulesToRebuild`, which is the second and third red assertion.
- the two `nodePtyAddonPath` cases compared against a literal POSIX string.
  `resolve` returns a drive letter and backslashes on Windows, so they could only
  ever pass off it. Built from segments now, which still pins the `..` traversal
  that is the point of the test.

Verified on macOS: ensure-native-runtime-job-ownership,
verify-packaged-node-pty-job-ownership, windows-pe-machine,
script-module-dependencies, rebuild-native-deps-node-pty, rebuild-native-deps,
rebuild-native-deps-windows-process-tree, ensure-native-runtime -- 109 passed, 6
skipped. The 6 are the Windows-gated rebuild tests, which is the job this change
is aimed at; Windows CI is the arbiter.

* fix(windows): give the packaged fallback a third verdict, for a file that is no image

The packaged gate had two remedies for landing on the published prebuild and
picked between them on `!prebuilt`, which puts a truncated, empty or quarantined
`build/Release/conpty.node` in the cross-arch bucket: "the source build beside it
is the wrong architecture ... re-run with --arch". It is not the wrong
architecture, it is not an architecture, and `--arch` is not the command. The
rebuild-path gate was split for exactly this a commit ago; this is the same split
in the place that had not had it.

Also from review of the settled state:

- the stale-source-build branch ended in a call that happened to throw, so a
  reader could not see it was terminal and the file was read twice to get there.
  The verdict is now an Error the caller throws, built once from the read it
  already did, and shared with `assertCygwinBreakawayDenied` rather than copied.
- four injection seams had no consumer in production or in tests
  (`deniesBreakaway`, `peMachine`, and `exists`/`peMachine` on the rebuild
  verdict). An unused seam is a way for the tested path and the real one to drift
  apart; the tests drive both with real files. Removed.
- the loader table existed in a docblock and in the reference doc, already
  disagreeing about row four. The docblock cites the doc now.
- `peImage` stamped machine `0x0000` for an arch it had no value for, because
  `writeUInt16LE(undefined)` coerces to zero. A fixture that quietly invents the
  field the gates read is the same species of silent lie the gates exist to
  catch; it throws, and a test holds it to that.
- a test named for refusing an unreadable candidate asserted only that something
  threw. Renamed to what it proves.

* fix(windows): make the rebuild fixtures represent a tree that can exist

Second round of what running these suites on Windows exposed. The module the
walker could not stage is now staged, so the probe reached its own checker and
the real reasons surfaced:

- `writeFakeWindowsProcessTree` exported `{}`. The creation-time gate reads
  `supportedProcessDataFlags` off the addon and calls its absence "the tarball
  prebuilt, not a build of the patched source" — correctly. The fixture predates
  that gate and, being Windows-only, never met it. The healthy fake now reports
  the flag, taken from the gate's own constant. Two tests were failing on this,
  the second only because the module then joined `modulesToRebuild`.
- `rebuilds a loadable ConPTY native that lacks Orca job ownership` asked for a
  node-pty rebuild in a tree where node-pty had none of the payload its package
  ships. It gets `writeFakeNodePtyConptyPayload` like its two siblings.

I also tried making the fake rebuild emit `build/Release/conpty.node` the way a
real one does, and backed it out: `restoreNodePtyWindowsConptyRuntime` keys off
that file and then reads `third_party/conpty`, so emitting it in a tree without
the package payload turns one honest gap into an ENOENT two steps away. The
payload fixture is where "node-pty has its addon" belongs.

macOS: ensure-native-runtime-job-ownership, verify-packaged-node-pty-job-ownership,
windows-pe-machine, script-module-dependencies, rebuild-native-deps-node-pty,
rebuild-native-deps, rebuild-native-deps-windows-process-tree,
ensure-native-runtime — 112 passed, 6 skipped. The 6 are the Windows-gated
rebuild tests; Windows CI is the arbiter and is why they are on that job now.

* fix(windows): register the node-pty addon suites in the scope list too

Putting the five suites in the Windows lane's vitest argv gets them run once the
job starts; `WINDOWS_PACKAGE_TESTS` in `pr-code-change-scope.mjs` is what decides
whether the job starts at all. Only the argv was updated, so a PR touching just
`rebuild-native-deps-node-pty.test.mjs` would not have started the Windows job,
and its four Windows-only cases — including the same-host-absent one added here —
would have run on no machine for that PR. Exactly the shape of gap this branch is
about. Both lists now name all five, and `windows-pe-machine`,
`windows-pe-image-fixture` and `script-module-dependencies` join
`NATIVE_RUNTIME_PREFIXES` so a change to the modules themselves starts it too.

`win32-test-lane-registration.test.mjs` exists to catch precisely this and did
not, because its matcher only recognises suite-level gates (`describe.runIf` /
`describe.skipIf`) and a `.win32.` filename. These tests gate per `it`. Widening
it is not this branch's change to make: about thirty files across the repo carry
per-`it` Windows gates and are unregistered, so the ratchet would move far beyond
node-pty. Flagged rather than done.

Message repairs from the same review:

- the non-PE arm of the rebuild-time arch error read "... is not a PE image, so
  nothing can load it, so node-pty would fall back ...". The shared consequence
  clause already opens with ", so".
- the no-source-build packaging error ended "Package this Windows slice on such a
  host", which is wrong advice for the case where the host IS such a host and the
  rebuild simply left nothing — reachable when the artifact is removed before
  prune runs. It now names both readings and points at the beforeBuild output.
- the relay-addon builder blamed `--arch` for a build output that is not a PE at
  all, the same guess the node-pty gate was taught to stop making.
- the patch-drift assertion was a bare `toBe(true)`, so a real drift read as
  "expected false to be true". It now names the two things that can have drifted
  and what happens until they agree.
2026-09-16 22:23:30 -07:00
Brennan BensonandMerge Sim 1478101342 fix(windows): unblock structured native chat by exposing process creation time (#18986)
* fix(windows): guard process creation times

* fix(windows): ask the relay's bare addon for creation times too

The relay addon build now emits creationTimeMs, but the runtime binding
for the bare addon still declared only CommandLine, so a Windows relay
host requested flag 2 and every row came back without a creation time.
That leaves captureWindowsDescendantSnapshot returning null and
verifyWindowsProcessIdentity false forever on those hosts -- the relay
half of the patch was unreachable.

Naming CreationTime in the adapter is safe because the bare addon is a
content-hashed relay artifact: it ships in the same immutable relay
directory as the bundle reading it, so it can never be older than the
code asking for the bit.

Also bound the win32 guard test on our own row, which the addon can
never fail to answer, so an unconverted FILETIME or a 1601-epoch stamp
fails instead of satisfying a bare count.

* fix(windows): make the compiled addon prove its own CreationTime support

CI caught the real defect: the win32 guard test read
isWindowsProcessStartTimeAvailable() as true and then found 0 rows
carrying creationTimeMs. Unlike node-pty, this package publishes a
prebuilt .node at the same build/Release path node-gyp writes to, so
pnpm patches the source tree and leaves that binary alone. A host then
holds a patched lib/index.js -- ProcessDataFlag.CreationTime and all --
over a binary that ignores flag 4, and neither a load check nor a path
check can see the difference.

So the binary now says so itself: addon.cc exports
supportedProcessDataFlags, lib/index.js re-exports it, and

  - windows-process-tree-creation-time.cjs asserts it during install,
    which is what forces a from-source rebuild. It is shared by the Node
    probe in ensure-native-runtime.mjs and the Electron probe in
    rebuild-native-deps.mjs, exactly as node-pty-job-ownership.cjs is --
    the Electron half matters because that probe decides onlyModules, so
    without it the packaged app would ship the stale prebuilt.
  - isWindowsProcessStartTimeAvailable() gates on the reported bit, not
    the enum. Believing the enum is worse than reporting false: the
    descendant snapshot returns null forever and the exit proof latches
    unverifiable while structured chat believes it has a reaper.

rebuildNodeRuntimeModules could not actually have rebuilt this package:
the patched binding.gyp includes deps/node-addon-api, which the tarball
does not ship, and node-gyp must run from the physical dir.

Also closes the relay repair path's divergence: repairCreationTimeSources
wrote the C++ but not the buildNode splat or the tree-node typing, and
assertPatchApplied checked neither, so a repaired tree passed as patched
with buildProcessTree silently dropping the field.

The guard test is unchanged.

* fix(windows): keep the process-tree patch LF-only

windows-process-tree-patch-contract.test.mjs requires the patch file to
carry no CR bytes. Regenerating through pnpm patch-commit emitted 199 of
them, because the creation-time change is the first to touch files the
package ships as CRLF (src/process.h, src/process_worker.cc,
src/addon.cc, lib/index.js, lib/index.ts, the typings) -- and #17886's
own hunks over binding.gyp and src/process_commandline.cc carry the rest.

Stripping them is safe and changes nothing the lockfile records: pnpm
hashes patches CRLF-normalized, so the digest stays
e66202cc623996d02040c93449eb9ae353fddadf426cb53202a59ee710ee6fe7 and now
equals the file's plain sha256 too. It also still applies -- verified
against a deleted store entry, not a warm one -- and the precedent was
already there: the previous patch was LF-only and had been patching
those same CRLF files all along.

ensure-native-runtime.test.mjs stages the siblings the script loads at
module scope into its temp project. The import walk added by #17886 sees
`from './x.mjs'` only, so the createRequire'd .cjs siblings still have to
be named, and this PR adds a second one.

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Co-authored-by: Merge Sim <sim@local>
2026-09-06 13:59:59 -07:00
bfc6a262a7 fix(windows): read command lines from the kernel, not each process's PEB (#17886)
* fix(windows): read command lines from the kernel, not each process's PEB

MDE incident D scored Orca for suspicious memory activity: the vendored
`@vscode/windows-process-tree` recovered every process's command line by
opening it with `PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION | PROCESS_VM_READ` and chaining
three `ReadProcessMemory` calls through the PEB and
`RTL_USER_PROCESS_PARAMETERS`. On a 750ms/2s cadence over the whole table that
is the credential-dumping primitive, whatever the intent.

Windows 8.1 added `NtQueryInformationProcess`'s `ProcessCommandLineInformation`
class (60), which returns the same string as a kernel-built `UNICODE_STRING`
under `PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION` alone. Electron's floor is Windows
10, so every supported OS has it. The PEB reader stays behind a process-wide
latch that only `STATUS_INVALID_INFO_CLASS`/`NOT_SUPPORTED`/`NOT_IMPLEMENTED`
can set; a pid that merely denied a handle does not re-arm it, because
`PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION` implicitly grants the limited right and so cannot
be obtained where the weaker open already failed.

The same hunk drops `PROCESS_VM_READ` from `GetProcessMemoryUsage` and
`GetCpuUsage`, which acquired it and never read an address space.

Measured on Windows 11 (514 processes), counted in-process by swapping the
addon's import table entries for counting stubs, per CommandLine scan:
`ReadProcessMemory` 1128 -> 0, desired access 0x0410 -> 0x1000, p50 12.7ms ->
9.3ms. Command lines were byte-identical on every process both readers
recovered (376/376, 379/379 across runs), including a 24,068-character argv
with quotes, non-ASCII and trailing whitespace, and a WOW64 target. Three
processes that refused the old rights granted the new one; none went the other
way.

* chore(deps): refresh the windows-process-tree patch hash in the lockfile

* fix(windows): drop the PEB fallback and detect the unpatched prebuilt

Review of #17886 found three ways the reader could still perform, or silently
resume, the primitive it exists to remove.

The class-missing latch was a permanent, process-wide, one-way downgrade back
to the PEB read, and any single target returning STATUS_INVALID_INFO_CLASS /
NOT_SUPPORTED / NOT_IMPLEMENTED could trip it. On an EDR-hooked ntdll -- the
entire premise of this change -- a hook that does not recognise class 60 would
have restored PROCESS_VM_READ plus three ReadProcessMemory per pid per scan for
the life of the process, unobservably, on precisely the machines this was
written for. The fallback is deleted rather than guarded: GetProcessCommandLine
now returns false and leaves the command line empty, which callers already
handle, so the addon imports no ReadProcessMemory at all.

That absence is what makes the property checkable on the artifact. The
published 0.8.0 tarball ships a loadable prebuilt built from unpatched source;
it is node-addon-api, so a bare require() accepts it, allowBuilds is false and
CI installs with --ignore-scripts, and a rebuild that soft-exits on a Windows
file lock leaves it in place. Source-text guards could never see it.
windowsProcessTreeAddonReadsProcessMemory() checks the compiled binary instead,
and is wired into the install check, the rebuild, and the relay build.

The repair itself never worked: `git apply` run inside a work tree prefixes
patch paths with the cwd-relative prefix, skips what does not match, and exits
0, so the branch always fell through to its own post-check throw. The package
dir is always under the project root, while the fixture that covered it was in
%TEMP%, outside any repo. Blinding git with GIT_DIR fixes it, and the test now
runs inside a real work tree.

Also from review: bounds-check the returned UNICODE_STRING against the
allocation (not the size the second query clobbers) and cap the probe so a
bogus length cannot bad_alloc a whole scan; test NT_SUCCESS explicitly; value-
initialize ProcessInfo, which left `memory` as stack garbage -- measured, 82
processes reported the same bogus working set; and correct a comment in
windows-process-table.ts that still described the command line as a PEB read.

Re-measured on Windows 11 (543 processes): ReadProcessMemory 1128 -> 0, with
the symbol absent from the import table so the IAT hook finds no slot to
count; desired access 0x0410 -> 0x1000 on all 543 opens; p50 13.5 -> 12.3ms;
405/405 command lines byte-identical including a 24,087-character quoted
non-ASCII argv and a WOW64 target; 3 processes recovered only by the new path,
0 only by the old.

* chore(deps): refresh the windows-process-tree patch hash in the lockfile

* test(scripts): stage a script's local imports into the native-runtime fixture

ensure-native-runtime.mjs gained an import of windows-process-tree-gyp-rebuild.mjs,
but the fixture copied only the script itself, so every case in the suite died
with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND before reaching its own assertions. copyScriptWithLocalModules
already walks a script's co-located imports for exactly this reason -- its own doc
comment names this failure -- so use it rather than listing files by hand.

The two Windows cases still fail here, on a missing node-pty ConPTY runtime that
also fails on main; this only stops a resolution error from standing in front of
whatever they were meant to catch.

* fix(windows): route a locked stale addon to the Windows file-lock message

`pnpm install` with Orca running aborted with a raw EPERM stack. The stale-binary
guard -- which deletes an addon that still imports ReadProcessMemory so a skipped
rebuild cannot use it -- ran outside the try whose catch classifies Windows file
locks, and whose message is literally "Close running Orca/Electron/dev processes
for this worktree": exactly this situation.

Measured rather than assumed: rmSync against a loaded (memory-mapped) addon throws
EPERM, and `force: true` does not help, since it only swallows ENOENT. Cold copies
of the same file delete fine. So the delete threw a page before the handler that
knows what it means.

Moving the guard inside the try is the whole fix; the classifier already matches
the EPERM text. The new case runs the real script against a temp project whose
stale addon is held open by a live child process, and fails against the old
placement with the raw `syscall: 'rm'` stack the report described.

* feat(windows): warn once when command-line recovery is refused host-wide

Removing the PEB fallback removed a total-defeat vector, but it left a cliff: if
NtQueryInformationProcess(ProcessCommandLineInformation) is refused -- a hooked
ntdll that does not know class 60 -- every command line comes back empty and
agent identity matching silently degrades to image names. The addon still loads
and still enumerates, so every health check the app has stays green. A cliff
nobody can see is the failure mode this area keeps producing.

The querying process is the unambiguous probe. A process can always open itself
with PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION, so its own command line coming back empty
means the query is refused for every process -- not that some target denied a
handle, which is normal for roughly a quarter of the table. Keying on our own row
rather than a fraction means no threshold to tune and no false positive on a
hardened box where most processes deny.

One warning per session, gated on the CommandLine flag actually being requested so
a future identity-only reader cannot trip it. The suite's own SELF fixture gains a
command line for the same reason: a self row without one is the alarm, not a
detail.

* fix(windows): check the relay's staged addon at load, and answer tri-state

Two gaps in the ReadProcessMemory check, both about what it does not see.

It only ever looked at node_modules/@vscode/windows-process-tree. A relay host
has no node_modules of ours: it loads ./windows-process-tree.node staged beside
the bundle. The relay build asserts the symbol on the artifact it produces, but a
bundle and the addon beside it redeploy independently, so a host that has not
taken a new bundle keeps whatever binary is already there -- and the published
prebuilt is node-addon-api, so it binds cleanly and then walks every process's
address space. loadWindowsProcessTree now checks that file too and refuses it,
falling back to the CIM scan: slower, but not the thing an EDR quarantines a host
for. The predicate is duplicated rather than imported, because the config-script
copy is install-time tooling that drags in node-gyp and child_process, and this
module is bundled into the app and the relay.

And it returned false for a binary that is not there. All three callers happened
to be safe, but the name read as a safety predicate, so a future caller would take
a missing binary as verified. inspectWindowsProcessTreeAddon() now answers
clean/unpatched/missing over an explicit binary path -- which is also what lets
the relay's staged addon be checked at all -- and each caller states which state
it acts on.

Both are covered by cases that fail against the old code: without the load-time
check the unpatched staged addon is bound and the CIM fallback never runs, and
with 'missing' folded back into 'clean' the absence case fails outright.

* test(windows): load the addon in beforeAll, not at collection time

loadAddon() ran while the file was being collected, so on a Windows checkout with
no built addon the require threw before any case existed and took the seven
patch-text cases down with it -- cases that read only the patch file and need no
binary at all. Verified both ways against a deliberately unresolvable addon path:
at collection time vitest reports "no tests" for the file; from beforeAll the
seven text cases pass and only the three addon cases go.

* fix(deps): normalize the windows-process-tree patch to LF and let pnpm own its hash

`pnpm install --frozen-lockfile` failed on this branch on every platform with
ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_CONFIG_MISMATCH, which breaks CI and the release build.

Two coupled defects. The patch file was committed with CRLF -- 174 CR bytes,
against zero on main -- and `.gitattributes` pins `/config/patches/*.patch -text`
precisely so checkout cannot convert it, so those bytes reached every runner. And
pnpm hashes a patch **LF-normalized**, so the raw sha256 of a CRLF file is a value
pnpm never computes:

  raw sha256      322965470c05f63d8527f7d8e892ee26ee444136b66b57fd64c362a9f2ff05d1
  LF-normalized   f8ea245391c94da5770045aeea01fa6de466c2199c6ef46b5b769b398aa9823e

The lockfile carried the raw one, at all three sites. It is the only one of the
seven patches where the two digests differ, which is why the other six passed.

Normalized the patch to LF and took pnpm's own value from
`pnpm install --no-frozen-lockfile`; nothing here is hand-computed. With the file
LF-only the two interpretations coincide, so the lockfile, the contract test's
no-CR assertion and its hash assertion all agree at one number -- and
`config/scripts/windows-process-tree-patch-contract.test.mjs`, which was red on
this branch for the same reason, is green again. The lockfile diff is exactly the
three hash lines.

The regression check is the installer, not a digest. Two separate reviews
"verified" the shipped hash by recomputing sha256(patchBytes) and matching the
lockfile; both were wrong, because both repeated the same wrong assumption about
which bytes pnpm hashes. A check that reproduces the original mistake is not
independent. So the new case runs `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile --lockfile-only
--ignore-scripts` against a copy of the manifest, lockfile and patches, and
asserts exit 0 -- verified by deletion: restoring the shipped hash fails it with
the exact ERR_PNPM_LOCKFILE_CONFIG_MISMATCH from the branch's package (windows)
job.

Also corrected the `.gitattributes` comment claiming pnpm hashes patches
byte-for-byte. The `-text` setting is right -- `git apply` needs the exact bytes --
but that sentence is the claim that produced the wrong hash twice.

* ci(windows): run the process-tree patch suites in CI

Both suites only self-skip off Windows, so the binary-level check that the
addon carries no ReadProcessMemory passed vacuously in every lane.

* fix(windows): force core.autocrlf=input for the patch repair

My LF normalization of the windows-process-tree patch broke the `git apply`
repair path introduced in this PR. The two are coupled and I checked only one.

Those 174 CR bytes were not editor noise. They sat on exactly the pre-image
lines and nowhere else -- 107/107 in src/process.cc, 67/67 in
src/process_commandline.cc, 0 on every added or context line -- because
@vscode/windows-process-tree@0.8.0 ships those two sources as CRLF. Normalizing
the patch made its pre-image stop matching the file it is applied against.

Measured, reconstructing the true CRLF pre-image from the pre-normalization
blob and applying the current LF patch:

  core.autocrlf   plain   -c core.autocrlf=input
  true            exit 0  exit 0
  input           exit 0  exit 0
  false           exit 1  exit 0

`false` is Git's own built-in default and what "checkout as-is" selects in the
Git for Windows installer -- on this box the `true` that hides it comes from the
installer's system gitconfig, not from anything in the repo. There the repair
throws, ensureWindowsProcessTreeCommandLinePatch reports "still reads the PEB,
and repairing it ... failed", isWindowsNativeLockError does not match that text,
and `pnpm install` dies with no path forward.

Forcing the mode rather than `--ignore-whitespace`: both fix every cell and both
leave the applied file fully LF, but `input` relaxes line endings only, so a hunk
whose real content drifted is still rejected. The repair rewrites a
security-relevant source file; it should stay strict about everything except the
thing that is legitimately ambiguous.

Not reverting the patch to CRLF: windows-process-tree-patch-contract.test.mjs
(pre-existing on main) forbids CR bytes in it, and pnpm computes the same hash
either way. LF plus the forced mode is the end state.

The suite could not have caught this. The fixture built its pre-image from the
patch itself and joined with '\n', so fixture and patch agreed by construction on
any encoding -- once again a test that passes without its fix. It now emits the
CRLF the real package ships, and the case runs under both autocrlf modes pinned
through a temp HOME gitconfig, because the repair blinds git to the repo and so
reads global config. Verified by deletion in both directions: with the flag
removed the autocrlf=false case fails with the exact "still reads the PEB" dead
end while autocrlf=true still passes, and with the fixture back on LF all eight
cases pass with no fix present at all.

Also corrected the .gitattributes comment I added last commit. It said `git
apply` needs the bytes the patch was written against, which is now false -- the
pinned bytes are LF and the bytes it was written against are CRLF. That is the
same class of confident-and-wrong claim that produced the bad hash twice.

* fix(windows): assert the rebuilt addon, and install the patch for real in tests

Three follow-ups from review.

**The packaged binary had no check.** The relay build asserts its own artifact
and ensure-native-runtime asserts what it loads, but nothing looked at the addon
copied into the packaged app -- so a rebuild that silently produced the upstream
reader shipped. `rebuild-native-deps.mjs` now asserts `clean` on it after
`rebuild()`. This is also the caller D4's tri-state was missing: every existing
site branches on `=== 'unpatched'`, so `missing` still behaved exactly like
`clean` everywhere, which was the thing making it a state rather than a boolean.
Here both non-clean states fail, and they fail differently: after a rebuild that
reported success, an absent binary is a broken build, not an absence to shrug at.

The fake `rebuild()` had to start producing a binary for that to mean anything,
so it now emits stand-in bytes and takes `addon: 'clean' | 'unpatched' | 'none'`.
Verified by deletion: with the assertion removed both new cases pass.

**The frozen-install case could not see a patch at all.** `--lockfile-only`
resolves and never applies one, so its coverage stops at hash consistency. Added
a case that installs `@vscode/windows-process-tree@0.8.0` for real with the patch
and asserts the materialized `src/process_commandline.cc` carries the marker and
no longer carries `ReadProcessMemory` -- about 1.5s for the pair.

Correcting the brief on that one: it does **not** catch the `git apply` breakage
from the previous commit. Measured -- with `-c core.autocrlf=input` removed it
passes cleanly, because `pnpm install` uses pnpm's own patch applier and never
runs our repair script. What it does catch is a patch pnpm can no longer apply:
corrupting one pre-image line fails both cases. The repair path stays covered by
the CRLF fixture in rebuild-native-deps-node-pty.test.mjs.

Worth recording, since it decides whether the LF normalization was safe at all:
pnpm applies the LF patch to the CRLF tarball sources without complaint, and
materializes them as LF with the marker present and `ReadProcessMemory` absent.
The primary install path was never affected -- only the `git apply` fallback was.

**Dead timeout.** The frozen-install case passed `timeoutMs: 300_000` to the
spawn while vitest capped the case itself at 30s, so on a cold runner vitest
would have killed it first. Both cases now declare the budget they use.

* test(windows): route the frozen-install check through the pnpm invocation owner

The new patched-dependencies check hand-rolled a PATH walk naming 'pnpm.cmd',
which the windows batch shim spawn boundary ratchet rejects: pnpm-cli-invocation
already owns that decision for every other script, and its allowlist only
shrinks.

Reuse resolvePnpmCliInvocation for the command and prefixArgs, and the shared
resolveCliCommand for the presence check, so no shim name is spelled here. Its
`shell` flag is dropped because runProcessSync refuses it and already drives a
shim through the interpreter itself.

---------

Co-authored-by: Orca Worker <orca-worker@localhost>
Co-authored-by: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-05 21:12:47 -07:00
Neil 2096b7a2e1 fix(windows): stage node-addon-api headers before process-tree rebuild (#17332)
Patched windows-process-tree binding.gyp includes deps/node-addon-api, but
those headers were only copied by the later relay-addon script. Postinstall
electron-rebuild then failed CI Windows installs with C1083 napi.h.
2026-08-29 21:16:55 -07:00
Brennan Benson fd9125ea8c feat(native-chat): Codex structured native chat restructure (#16729)
* feat(native-chat): port structured Codex sessions from restructure-recovery

Rebuilds the desktop structured native-chat implementation from
brennanb2025/native-chat-restructure-recovery (tip 4e31c08db3) on top of
current main as a single commit, scoped to the local Codex path.

Ported:
- Structured agent-session core: durable record store + single-writer lease,
  canonical journal, agent-session wire host/attach/eviction/subscribers,
  `agentSession.*` RPC surface (registered via ALL_RPC_METHODS; host-side
  mobile allowlist included for wire compat), pty write gate, transcript
  additions, and the Codex app-server adapter/launch resolution.
- Renderer: NativeChatStructuredSession view/composer stack, structured
  launch path with the single-flight guard, local structured session tabs
  sync, activation gate + structured inventory (read-only
  `agentSession.handoffStatus` probe), agent-session tabs in the tab strip,
  AI-vault structured session activation, and the settings pane with the
  parent Experimental Chat UI toggle plus the nested "Use updated structured
  native chat" toggle. New sessions require both flags, agent codex, no
  prompt, and a local non-WSL, non-Windows-host execution host
  (structured-native-chat-availability).
- Fixes 72c013cea6 (verified Codex launch recovery), 8ddbaf5e3d (defer
  native terminal view switching affordances), and 4e31c08db3 (release the
  launch gate after a visibility retry) with their regression tests,
  including the third-launch-after-retry guard case.
- Cross-version agent-session wire test + CI lane, packaging entries
  (proper-lockfile, agent-tooling asar excludes), and the wire-compat doc
  section.

Deliberately not ported: mobile/ changes, the Claude structured runtime
(only the claude-transcript-branch-proof and claude-structured-owner-identity
leaf modules remain, backing the kept TUI-recovery arms), the terminal↔chat
adoption/handoff flow (`agentSession.adoptTerminal`/`requestHandoff`, the
handoff request engine, TUI adoption machinery, orca-runtime adoption
methods), renderer switching affordances and their dead leftovers, the
hook/subagent-status refactor cluster, and unrelated branch changes. The
crash-during-acquisition recovery path (restart handoff adjudication,
restore/reverse re-acquire, lease schema handoff keys) is kept because every
plain direct launch depends on it; a trimmed handoff coordinator exposes
only status/restore/close.

Branch edits that targeted files main has since split (ipc/pty.ts,
worktrees.ts, rpc/methods/terminal.ts, useIpcEvents, pty-connection,
store/slices/terminals.ts, runtime-types, web preload) were re-applied to
the split modules, preserving main's newer logic (Windows CIM fallback,
browser tab close rework, cold-restore resume flow, dispatcher threading).

Known seam: the mobile clipboard image-provenance CONSUMER gate ships
(agentSession.send refuses unproven mobile image refs with
agent_session_image_untrusted) but the producer hunk in
rpc/methods/clipboard.ts stays with the unported mobile cluster, so mobile
image sends into structured chat fail closed until that side ports.

* fix(native-chat): trust only authenticated local image uploads

* fix(build): preserve Windows process-tree patch application

* test(windows): include process creation time in addon fixture

* fix(build): run windows-process-tree node-gyp from the physical package dir

gyp expands the node-addon-api dependency by probing node, whose cwd
resolves to the package's physical directory in the store, so the emitted
target is a store-relative ../../../../node-addon-api@... hop. gyp then
resolves that hop against the rebuild cwd; from the node_modules
symlink/junction it escapes the store and configure fails with
"node_addon_api.gyp not found" (run 32999886072).

Rebuild from realpath(package dir) so both bases agree, matching how the
package manager itself runs native install scripts. The regression test
replays gyp's expansion+resolution against the planned cwd and fails
without the fix.

* fix(native-chat): keep chat tabs visible through terminal closes and empty-worktree launches

Two proven blockers in the native Codex tab contract:

closeTerminalTab pre-empted the canonical unified close. With one terminal
left it deactivated the worktree on a terminal/editor/browser-only check,
blanking a workspace that still held a renderable agent-session tab; with
two or more it pre-picked a successor from terminal entities only,
re-stamping the group active before closeUnifiedTab's MRU/neighbor repair
could land on the chat tab. Successor choice now defers to the unified
contract whenever the terminal has a unified row, and deactivation is
gated on the unified renderable count (matching leaveWorktreeIfEmpty),
with the legacy pre-pick kept only for terminals without a unified row.

A structured session created on an empty worktree was published into the
host's headless group while preserveLocalLayout froze the local layout,
leaving the tab in store but permanently off screen. A preserveLocalLayout
owner now always takes client-owned placement — repairing a rendered
leaf whose group record is missing, or materializing a rendered group on a
truly empty worktree — and applies the client-derived layout repair while
still rejecting host-authored layout.

Regression tests drive the real store through closeTerminalTab (git
worktree and folder workspace) and the real snapshot applier for the
empty-worktree adoption states; all fail without the fixes.

* fix(native-chat): close stale turns and retry rejected sends

* fix(native-chat): retire hosted rows on structured tab activation

* fix(native-chat): preserve rpc defaults across main merge

* chore: format remote wire compatibility guide

* test(native-chat): cover retry after unconfirmed send

* fix(native-chat): reload outbox on session switch

* docs(settings): disclose structured chat platform limits

* fix(native-chat): await Codex launch-home preparation

* fix(codex): align child-process allowlist with async trust bridge

* test(identity): update inventory for tab surface refactor

* fix(windows): preserve process-tree CRLF patch sources

* fix(native-chat): anchor an unmatched chat echo where it was sent (#16117)

* fix(native-chat): anchor an unmatched chat echo where it was sent

The reported symptom was old user messages replaying below every new turn, so the
conversation read as scrambled. The cause was not that the echo failed to match a
transcript row. Claude consumes a mid-turn send through a `queued_command`
attachment and writes no `type:"user"` record for it, so some echoes can never
match, and no amount of matching will change that. The cause was WHERE an
unmatched echo rendered: buildMobileNativeChatTransientData appended every pending
item after the entire transcript, so it re-read below each turn that landed
afterwards.

Render each echo directly after the transcript row it was sent against, using the
baseline the send already captures. An unmatched echo is then at worst a duplicate
in the right position rather than a scrambled one, and it stays visible. Echoes
sharing an anchor keep send order; a send with no baseline, or one whose anchor
folding dropped, still falls back to the tail.

Deliberately NOT fixed by deleting the echo. Inferring from send ordering that an
echo can never match, then removing it, loses the user's own text for a message
the agent did receive, and it cannot fire in the common case anyway - measured
drain groups are 1,017 of size 1 against 55 larger. It also escalates an existing
gap: the count pass has no baseline-tail guard, unlike the glue pass, while
`messages` is a 40-row window that head-trims, resets on reconnect and grows at
the front on loadEarlier, so a false landing there would license deleting a
DIFFERENT outstanding message.

That count-pass gap is real and left for a separate change; anchoring makes its
worst case a duplicate in place rather than a scrambled conversation.

* fix(native-chat): preserve folded echo anchors

* fix(native-chat): preserve forward-folded echo anchors

* fix(native-chat): keep leading folded echoes in place

* fix(workspace-cleanup): show git status for every row (#16690)

* fix(native-chat): refuse structured chat on every Windows execution path

canUseStructuredNativeChat only refused win32 when a project runtime
resolved, so folder-workspace keys (and other keys with no project
runtime) failed open into structured chat on Windows. Fail closed on
win32 unconditionally after the host check, matching the settings copy:
local macOS/Linux only; Windows/WSL/SSH stay on terminal chat.

* fix(native-chat): restore runtime refusals behind the win32 gate

506d375de3 replaced the project-runtime checks with a bare platform test,
so a WSL or repair-required runtime resolution would no longer refuse
structured chat off-win32. Keep the unconditional win32 refusal and
re-run the runtime resolution after it, so the gate does not depend on
the resolver's own platform guard. Tests inject WSL and repair-required
resolutions on darwin/linux and fail against the regressed gate.

* fix structured session journal durability

* fix structured tab active pointer after restart

* fix(native-chat): await optional lease renewal callbacks

* refactor(skills): extract install error messages

* fix(agent-session): harden recovery ownership

* fix(native-chat): retain panes across tab activation

* fix(native-chat): address round-one review findings

* test(native-chat): align integration coverage after main merge

* fix(native-chat): harden round-two reliability

* fix(native-chat): harden round-three reliability

* fix(native-chat): close round-four recovery gaps

* fix(native-chat): separate bounded journal key forms

* fix(native-chat): reset outbox error in render on session switch

The switch effect adjusted error state after the sessionId prop changed,
tripping react-doctor's no-adjust-state-on-prop-change on the changed-code
gate and flashing the old session's banner for a frame. Reset it with the
render-time previous-value guard instead.

* fix(native-chat): invalidate stale outbox settlements

* test(native-chat): restore settled-error session-switch regression

a6e2379bd1 replaced this test with the in-flight settlement race test,
leaving the render-time error reset unpinned: deleting the reset block
still passed the whole native-chat suite. Keep both scenarios pinned;
they are distinct (settled error clears on switch vs stale settlement
invalidated in the commit-to-passive window).

* test(wire): make release checkouts race safe

* test(wire): pin cross-process checkout single-flight and importer specifier contract

* test(wire): harden release checkout lifecycle

* fix(build): drop CR-byte residue from windows-process-tree patch

The two trailing CR bytes on the patch's deletion lines are a proven
no-op: pnpm hashes patches CRLF-normalized (both forms hash to the
lockfile's 946ffb2b) and materializes this package without applying the
patch in either form, so the load-bearing build edits come solely from
applyWindowsProcessTreeBuildFixes() (#16947), which handles both source
EOL forms. Restore byte-identity with main and repin the contract test
to the post-#16947 reality: LF-only patch bytes plus lockfile hash sync.

* fix(native-chat): skip empty startup recovery
2026-08-28 16:45:58 -07:00
Jinwoo Hong 8dd7d6060c fix(release): stabilize native builds across CI platforms (#16947) 2026-08-27 21:42:34 -07:00
Neil 0096e47850 fix(windows): keep windows-process-tree gyp paths absolute under pnpm (#16688)
* fix(windows): keep windows-process-tree gyp paths absolute under pnpm

Hourly Windows builds have failed since #16598 at
`build-windows-process-tree-relay-addon`: `require('node-addon-api').targets`
is cwd-relative, so node-gyp evaluates it from the pnpm store realpath and
then loads it from the `node_modules` symlink. That resolves
`node_addon_api.gyp` outside the repo.

Use `require.resolve` for an absolute path, matching the node-pty patch.

* i18n: keep ja skill-filter labels on the catalog's Agent brand

#16682 merged with a failing localization catalog: ja used エージェント
in three new skill-filter strings, and repair-locale-catalog rewrites
those to Agent. Match the rest of ja.json so static analysis can pass.
2026-08-26 16:15:03 -07:00
Neil 19e9ec695b perf(windows): ship the native process table to Windows relay hosts (#16598)
* feat(windows): let a relay host bind the native process table directly

The CIM fallback from #16550 answers on relay hosts, but it costs a
powershell.exe and ~1.4s per scan where the native reader costs ~57ms.
It is a parachute, not the destination.

Teach the loader a second source: the desktop app keeps resolving the
npm package, and a relay host -- which has none of our node_modules --
binds a bare `windows-process-tree.node` staged beside the bundle. The
CIM scan stays as the last resort, so a host with neither is unchanged.

Bind the addon directly rather than its package wrapper. lib/index.js
adds only a queue over getProcessList, and that queue is the wedge this
module already defends against: it latches a module-global
requestInProgress with no try/catch. We hold our own single-flight and
deadline, so going straight to the addon drops the duplicate.

Measured on a Windows 11 SSH host with ~1490 processes, running the
relay-externals bundle from the deployed relay directory:

  no addon staged   nativeAvailable=false  1247ms  (CIM)
  addon staged      nativeAvailable=true     57ms  memory restored

Degradation was exercised on that host, not just in fakes: a truncated
upload, a text file, and a foreign-arch ELF each fall through to the
scan rather than throwing, and restoring a good addon recovers. A file
that loads but lacks getProcessList is rejected by shape, because
binding to it would reject every read forever where falling through
still answers.

No artifact is staged yet, so this is inert until the packaging change
lands: today every relay takes the same CIM path it does now.

* build(relay): ship the Windows process-table addon to relay hosts

The CIM scan restored correctness on Windows SSH hosts, but it costs a
powershell.exe and ~1.4s per read where the native addon costs ~57ms. It
was always the floor, not the destination.

The addon cannot be npm-installed on a relay host: it carries a
binding.gyp, so npm rebuilds from source and the build wants
Spectre-mitigated libraries even where MSVC is already present. The
binary inside the published tarball loads, but predates our patch and
still caps enumeration at 1024 processes -- on a 1486-process host it
returned exactly 1024 rows with the querying process among the missing,
which reads as unavailable only under load. No published alternative
clears the bar either; the one fork with a working prebuild story still
carries the same cap.

So build it where a compiler exists and ship the result. The build script
refuses unpatched source -- checking the source rather than trusting the
install, because the Spectre hunk fails loudly while the 1024 hunk fails
silently -- and verifies the PE machine field so a cross-build cannot
emit host arch for another target.

The artifact is optional: hashed when present so a relay carrying it
never shares an immutable directory with one that does not, and never
probed, since requiring a file only a Windows build machine can produce
would make a correct relay read as MISSING and redeploy forever. Builds
on any other OS keep using the scan, unchanged.

arm64 cross-compiles from the x64 runner but needs the optional MSVC
ARM64 toolset, so it stays best-effort: a runner image without that
component should cost arm64 relays the fast path, not fail the release
the x64 relay is riding on. ORCA_REQUIRE_RELAY_NATIVE_ADDONS is a
per-arch list rather than a flag for exactly that reason.

* build(relay): require the arm64 process-table addon too

The arm64 cross-compile is no longer unproven. On a Windows x64 machine
with the MSVC v143 ARM64 build tools component installed, node-gyp
--arch=arm64 produces a genuine ARM64 image:

  x64    machine=0x8664  152064 bytes
  arm64  machine=0xaa64  139776 bytes

So arm64 stops being best-effort and joins x64 in the required list. It
was only best-effort because the component is optional and I had not seen
it succeed; a runner image without it now fails the build with MSB8020
naming the missing component, and that step runs before the long
packaging step so the failure costs seconds rather than twenty minutes.

The env var stays a per-arch list rather than reverting to a flag, so a
future arch can land best-effort before being promoted the same way.
2026-08-26 03:14:45 -07:00